The biggest problem research has is that its almost never clear what the result will be to the bottom line. People complain bitterly about two things with rese

The biggest problem research has is that its almost never clear what the result will be to the bottom line. People complain bitterly about two things with research 1. That it's looking at obvious things and they could have told the answer (What's really happened is some researcher has actually looked into some common school of thought to check its reliability) 2. That there's no "use" for the thing be researched (it's absurd). This type of research is really "document phenomena, try to understand it" the use of that phenomena is often not clear for decades, or centuries (our cryptographic systems currently rely on research into math that was once considered absolutely worthless)